Re: Call for Foundation-supported Project Ideas

On Thu, Jan 6, 2022, 16:42 Karel Gardas <gardask@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/29/21 8:12 PM, Michael Schuster wrote:
> > Hi Karel,
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 29, 2021, 19:32 Karel Gardas <gardask@gmail.com
> > <mailto:gardask@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >     On 11/23/21 11:41 PM, Joseph Mingrone wrote:
> >      > Hello FreeBSD community,
> >      >
> >      > The Foundation is seeking suggestions for new projects to
> >     support.  What
> >      > gaps in the Project are not being addressed by the broader
> community?
> >
> >     sorry for being late with those:
> >
> >     1) implement/port beadm equivalent from Solaris/IlumosOS? Make
> >     freebsd-update process more reversible by using proper boot
> >     environments
> >     and using ZFS snapshots.
> >
> >
> > All of these have been in FreeBSD for quite a while - can't give you
> > dates or specifics (port vs "builtin"), but I've been using them since
> > at least 13.
>
> Went ahead to properly verify the fact on fresh 13 install on ZFS root
> and no. The feature is not there yet. E.g.
>
> - bectl is presented in 13-p0 - 13-p5
> - freebsd-update does not contain any reference to bectl hence it cannot
> create snapshot on update on 13-p0 - 13-p5.
>


Hmmm... I thought I was referring to ZFS, BEs and beadm (equiv) only, not
-update. Sorry if my message was confusing (and I'm too lazy to go back and
check all the old emails :))


> However, freebsd-update in 13-STABLE (source code) contains bectl bits
> to handle snapshoting on update as proposed for inclusion here:
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21892
>
> So my conclusion is, perhaps with 13-p6 it'll be first time the feature
> will be user-visible and usable.
>
> Sorry for nitpicking but needed to know that for sure.
>

NP
Michael

>
> Thanks,
> Karel
>